This course introduces Web Science and provides an overview of the field that shows the interdisciplinary perspective on the web, that has been fostered among others by the Web Science Trust[1].
Credit: 3 u.
Course Goals
At the end of the semester, the students should be able to:
know the idea of Web Science as it is established in the scientific community around the Web Science Initiative;
understand the rang of disciplines, research methods and theoretical approaches required to analyze, critique and develop the web; and
understand the relevance of the different perspective of the domain and identify contributions on areas of interest within the domain.
Topics
The Web and its Science Engineering the Web The Analysis of the Web
Social Aspects Web Governance, Security and Standards
References:
[1] Web Science Trust (2011). "Web Science" (http://webscience.org). URL: http://webscience.org/. Last Accessed: November 17, 2011.
[2] Tom Heath and Christian Bizer (2011) "Linked Data: Evolving the Web into a Global Data Space" (1st edition). Synthesis Lectures on the Semantic Web: Theory and Technology, 1:1, 1-136. Morgan & Claypool. URL: http://linkeddatabook.com/editions/1.0/. Last Accessed: Nov. 18, 2011.
[3] Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan and Hinrich Schutze (2008). "Introduction to Information Retrieval". Cambridge University Press. URL: http://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/. Last Accessed: Nov. 18, 2011.
[4] Linking Government Open Government Data. TWC LOGD. URL: http://logd.tw.rpi.edu/tutorials. Last Accessed: Nov. 18, 2011.
CS 268 Web Science
This course introduces Web Science and provides an overview of the field that shows the interdisciplinary perspective on the web, that has been fostered among others by the Web Science Trust[1].Credit: 3 u.
Course Goals
At the end of the semester, the students should be able to:Topics
The Web and its ScienceEngineering the Web
The Analysis of the Web
Social Aspects
Web Governance, Security and Standards
References:
[1] Web Science Trust (2011). "Web Science" (http://webscience.org). URL: http://webscience.org/. Last Accessed: November 17, 2011.
[2] Tom Heath and Christian Bizer (2011) "Linked Data: Evolving the Web into a Global Data Space" (1st edition). Synthesis Lectures on the Semantic Web: Theory and Technology, 1:1, 1-136. Morgan & Claypool. URL: http://linkeddatabook.com/editions/1.0/. Last Accessed: Nov. 18, 2011.
[3] Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan and Hinrich Schutze (2008). "Introduction to Information Retrieval". Cambridge University Press. URL:
http://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/. Last Accessed: Nov. 18, 2011.
[4] Linking Government Open Government Data. TWC LOGD. URL: http://logd.tw.rpi.edu/tutorials. Last Accessed: Nov. 18, 2011.